However, what happened after that is very clear to everyone. In just a few years, the memory of any computer is now calculated in GB, and the size of the mobile phone screen has already exceeded 4 inches several times. Volkswagen even threw the compact old beetle into the trash can early and replaced it with a more spacious golf. Even now, golf has to be replaced by a larger ID series. None of the flags set up by the big bosses were spared. Why? Because they misjudged the times.
With the increasing demand of consumers for products, how to combine their own advantages to create products that attract consumers has become the number one problem for today's car companies. But for FAW Toyota, which is good at grasping the market context, the answer is obviously very obvious. Numerous cases in China market prove that the leapfrog products of "Freshman" are more popular in China market, which points out the direction for FAW Toyota early, so it is positioned between Corolla and Asia Dragon. ALLION came into being as the times require, and it is a new era compact car built by Taiji FAW Toyota.
At present, the joint venture compact car market in China can be said to be "split in two". Conventional compact cars such as Corolla, Civic, Sylphy and Lingpai compete with each other. However, in view of the huge market between traditional compact cars and mid-size cars, there is almost no joint venture compact car field, and only Sagitar L just launched by Volkswagen 20 19 monopolizes this market.
As a first-line brand, Toyota naturally cannot sit idly by and watch the public "eat alone". The demand for leapfrog compact cars is actually huge, and the monthly sales of Sagitar L can easily break through 10,000, which proves this point. Therefore, FAW Toyota aims at this almost blank market, that is, it can perfectly meet the consumption upgrading needs of current consumers, improve the product line for FAW Toyota and find new sales growth points; It can also fill the price gap between the compact Corolla and the intermediate Asian Dragon, killing two birds with one stone.
Toyota has always been known for its rigor and never fights unprepared. We have seen a lot of heavy technology of "nuclear weapons" in FAW Toyota ALLION. First of all, FAW Toyota introduced Toyota's TNGA architecture into ALLION, which achieved lighter weight, stronger body rigidity and lower center of gravity while having leapfrog size. The performance of TNGA architecture is extremely eye-catching. The passive safety of Toyota cars using TNGA architecture in the collision between C-NCAP and C-IASI is the golden signboard of TNGA architecture, and ALLION will undoubtedly inherit this.
In today's era when everything needs small displacement pressurization, FAW Toyota has prepared 2.0L for ALLION. Dynaforce high-efficiency engine is very rare, this engine and Toyota's unique Directshift? CVT gearboxes together constitute ALLION's power combination, which not only maintains excellent fuel economy and fuel adaptability, but also greatly reduces the use cost by only adding 92 # gasoline. The system also has excellent reliability performance of Toyota products. The tried-and-tested powertrains on the products of Asian Dragon, Yize and even Lexus are trustworthy, and the inevitable high temperature and leakage problems of rival supercharged engines are also avoided.
For other products on the market, ALLION's 2750mm wheelbase is undoubtedly a rolling advantage. The 2750mm wheelbase directly makes ALLION sit on the throne of the longest wheelbase of the joint venture compact class. The long wheelbase not only brings more slender side lines, but also has a direct benefit of greatly expanding the interior space. We can expect the interior space performance of the new ALLION-you know, even the intermediate Camry only has a wheelbase of 2775 mm.
Compact car? Allen is not that shallow.
Unlike those compact products on the market that dare to be called "leapfrog" simply by stretching, ALLION comes from FAW Toyota after all and has a higher pursuit. Otherwise, FAW Toyota would not have painstakingly launched the advanced TNGA platform and 2.0 engine, so why not simply lengthen the Corolla? So, we saw a brand-new design similar to the flagship product Asia Dragon of FAW Toyota on ALLION. The wide front and rear modeling with horizontal lines as the main part has a strong role in creating the sense of grade of the whole vehicle. It is no exaggeration to say that ALLION is the most "platoon" in compact cars.
In addition to the appearance, according to the ALLION car exhibited at Guangzhou Auto Show, we can know that the configuration of ALLION car is definitely not low. Although we can't experience it at close range through the fence, we can see through the glass that the interior decoration of ALLION car at the auto show site uses a lot of soft materials and leather decorated with stitches, and the seat shape is brand-new, which greatly exceeds Toyota's previous performance and is almost unparalleled in its class.
In addition to the brand-new interior, cameras and various sensor probes all over the car also tell us that the brand-new ALLION is equipped with a series of advanced active and passive safety equipment including TSS2.0 active safety system. However, this seems to be taken for granted. After all, even Corolla is equipped with this system in a large area, and the more advanced ALLION has no reason not to follow up. Similarly, Toyota's patented GOA high-rigidity body structure and multiple airbags will also become the standard of ALLION, and we can expect the collision results of the new ALLION.
Toyota dares to "eat crabs" and times have changed.
How to treat FAW Toyota's brand-new ALLION? In fact, it is the game breaker and the pioneer who dares to charge in the huge market gap. Not only is its strength extraordinary, but FAW Toyota, which has always been conservative, also dares to be "the best in the world". This is the scariest signal on the new ALLION. This old joint venture company, which has been arrogant for decades, has begun to show its cards.
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